Heather's Highlight's!: Disney World........... The Beginning

I have been putting off my posts on Disney World for a number of reasons. #1 - I am Lazy or busy, you pick, #2 - I was super super lame at the picture taking while at Disney World. You see, my sisters have these 'fancy' cameras and had them out a bunch, so I left it up to them to take lots and lots of pictures. I know they did, I just don't have all the copies yet.

Despite my lack of pictures I will blog about our wonderful vacation to Disney World. It puts a grin on my face just thinking about it.

The kids and I left Fresno on Friday September 17th. We left after school and Tyler's cross country meet. We stopped at McDonalds to grab some food and then due to some car issues, got Stuck in the drive thru. I blocked the drive thru for a good 20 minutes. The long and the short of it is this. There is a release switch when you push the break that allows you to shift the car out of park. The switch in my car was broken and decided to pick that particular moment in the drive thru to not work at all! I was mildly freaking out and called Julie who had the brains to check online and suggested how I might remedy my issue. Surrounded my all the McDonalds workers, I was eventually able to figure it out and we went on our merry way. We did not realize until after Disney World and we took the car in to get fixed that the issue also meant that the whole time my brake light were not working - OOPS!

Back to our trip..... we met up with Steve in LA and crashed at a hotel for the night. The next morning we headed off to the airport and onto our Non-stop flight to Orlando. I mention the non-stop because we took Noah with us and this was a blessing. The kids, including Noah, were amazing on the plane. Noah slept a lot of the time and when he wasn't asleep he was super mellow. Once we arrived in Orlando we took Disney's Magical Express right to the Resort - Disney's Old Key West Resort to be exact. It was a pretty slick shuttle system and we didn't have to haul our luggage through the airport which was nice.

This is Josh being a pirate with a 'parrot' on his shoulder. When we checked in he got his pirate hat and balloon sword and we found the bird folded and ready to go in our room.

All in all it was a great beginning to the trip. We spent the evening waiting for Mom and Dad and Marilee and Adam to get back from their excursion to the BYU game and for Julie and TJ to arrive. The kids were so excited of course!

On Sunday we took a very long time trying to get it all together and then finally took the boat to Downtown Disney. We got some food to eat and wandered around for awhile. Most of our time was spent with the kids (I say that loosely because the Dads were also involved) making cars and other vehicles at the lego store to race. Despite the fact that Steve was scolded by the boat driver on the way back to the hotel, the day was great. Actually that was great too - Haha - he got in trouble! Add in a little swimming and a great dinner and we were ready to hit the ground running bright and early Monday morning......